To Cloud, or Not to Cloud

The concept of the cloud has taken an interesting path over the past twenty years. Evolving from application and infrastructure hosting models to multitenant as-a-service architectures, organizations can now implement enterprise-grade environments without the level of effort and investment that a traditional data center deployment would require.

As advanced as the cloud has become, there are several aspects to consider when CIOs, CTOs, and their enterprise data architects decide “to cloud, or not to cloud” for their analytic ecosystems. Author John Myers of Enterprise Management Associates takes us through the considerations.